Researchers described a promising new approach for using gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease in the journal Human Gene ... and sub-tropical regions where malaria is or was common.

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over ... occurrence of the sickle-cell mutation in a region historically hyperendemic for malaria (Kulozik et al., ...

“Sickle cell disease impacts mostly people of Black or African descent. And we believe this is because, many many years ago, ...

Malaria Sickle Cell and Malaria Research suggests that individuals who are sickle cell disease carriers (or who have the sickle cell trait) have some protective advantage against malaria.

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savanna habitats, some of which may ...

Sickle cells grow into crescent shapes, instead of the round red blood cells seen in people without the gene New research suggests that the history of sickle-cell disease goes back to a mutation ...

Their adoption has given physicians new options to control the disease ... malaria infections, among participants on Pfizer’s drug. Observational testing, meanwhile, found higher rates of sickle ...